First transfer, yes, but not the first to move directly from a contract with a USL club to one with a NWSL club. Neeku Purcell and Laurel Ansbrow came first, which should not be forgotten.

General Manager Patrik Allvin announced today that General Manager Patrik Allvin has been relieved of his duties as General Manager

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My lasting impression of the Patrik Allvin era in Vancouver will forever be that every tweet announcing any roster move, however trivial, invariably opened with "General Manager Patrik Allvin announced today," as if by contractual obligation

If you ever doubt yourself, just know that you too can post on LinkedIn every day until you get your dream job

Good luck to Tottenham and Roberto De Zerbi!

In this house, we see and recognize our trans friends today and every day

Chris Drury would like a word

Other than a lifetime of well-documented lying, cheating, and stealing and a previous four-year presidential term of lying, cheating, and stealing, there just really wasn't any way to know that this Trump fella would lie, cheat, and steal, was there?

I suppose it doesn't hurt to have exactly one (1) Connor Hellebuyck too.

Let's not retcon a number of very poor roster decisions for the US men's hockey team into being some work of genius. Let's instead talk about how the US has so thoroughly developed into a dominant hockey power that it can make those mistakes and still grind its way to a gold medal.

Well, with the original post deleted, this could be in regard to anything and it would always be true.

This is, in my opinion, more troubling than any single player signing at a team. Key stakeholders believing in the tropes of men's football and porting them over to women's soccer, creating an issue that did not and should not exist.

Glad to be back

Just arrived back in the US for the first time in 20 months and it seems like we've had yet another totally normal day here

I have a lot of time and respect for Caitlin that dates back to my time in Orlando and hers at the league office, and I'm glad she's getting another opportunity to be in a high-level position

I love this and I'm glad it was created. I also deeply distrust the underlying data source and worry about what the data illiterate will take away upon a cursory glance.

What I'm proposing here allows for that exactly.

Actually, the pie analogy doesn't exactly work in the same way here. In this situation, someone with way more pie than they could ever hope to eat in a thousand years would be taking some of that pie and adding it to this one.

The league doesn't want a cap lift and this satisfies that, while also allowing for spending that could far exceed an extra $1M per team.

Hypothetically, if Spirit had $500k in cap space available, and market value on Rodman was $2m/year, under this system they could pay that. They can't with HIP.

Once more re: NWSL salaries

I still think this is the mechanism that ticks the most boxes for everyone and keeps it simple.

No change needed to cap. Relative parity stays since teams can only afford so many $500k hits. Rich owners can spend what they want on talent. Bigger share of pie to players.

No matter your favorite term to describe them, whether systems coach, tactician, connoisseur of a fine game model, or otherwise, these coaches need a preseason. They NEED a preseason. The structure, spacing, movement, and principles can't be taught with the time constraints of an ongoing season.

A case study on what happens when both parties makes decisions that are suboptimal.

On one side, midseason hires, more often than not, need to be far more pragmatic than systems-strict. This was not that.

On the other, well, the grass isn't always greener. Stay and be elite in MLS.

A player like that probably doesn't have to wait more than a year before they meet one or more of the criteria, so the timeline wouldn't effectively change much, but this is the most unserious way of creating that financial pathway

If you had asked me to come up with the most convoluted way to institute this rule, I would not have been able to come up with something as diabolical as this

Anyone with a modicum of sense would simply make a call or send an email afterward to continue the conversation in a way that resembled civility and actual productivity.

For those who aren't aware, these CSO meetings are structured to go through a list of relevant topics, usually determined by the league, and quickly devolve into the same several people arguing loudly on each side of board for their particular competing interests.

Hi again. It was the US and the number was 3.

Which is actually fine! There's enough talent dispersal across the world that one nation having 3 of the best 11 is really good!

But 7 for Spain and 4 for England this year is silly. This is not a serious list.

Well of course, Spain and England were in the final of a major European tournament!

*furiously checks notes on who won the Olympics last year and how many players that nation had on this list for 2024*